Welcome to the first PrimeCuts of 2015! The year started with a shout-out from 200 years ago in the form of a time capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams in 1797 (1)! While the general public will be able to visit treasured items such as newspapers from the period, colony records and preserved coins for some time, the city plans to eventually rebury the time capsule at the Massachusetts State…

Clinical Case: Ms. A, an 84-year-old retired physician with a history of bronchiectasis of unclear etiology, is admitted with the chief complaint of chronic cough. Further inquiry into her medical history reveals that she contracted malaria as a child while living in Korea. She had been prescribed chloroquine by multiple doctors, but her symptoms of fevers and night sweats did not improve. It was a trial of acupuncture therapy, she says, that finally cured her of malaria.

I distinctly remember being 9 years old, sitting in my doctor’s office after a cold left me struggling for breath, doubled over and wheezing, when he told me that I had asthma. At first I didn’t believe the diagnosis, despite the fact that the albuterol inhaler he had given me was like a breath of life after running suicides on the soccer field. I wasn’t sick or weak!…

Sick and tired of all those top 10 lists? We beg your indulgence and hope you will tolerate just one more, the Clinical Correlations Top 10 List for 2014. Limiting this selection to 10 articles was a true challenge. There are many outstanding, creative and enlightening pieces that did not make our list, so please take a moment and dig through our archives to review those articles you may have missed. And now as voted on by the editors…This Year’s top 10 list in no…

This Wednesday, President Obama announced plans to “end an outdated approach, that for decades, has failed to advance our interests,” ordering restoration of full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba.1 This step marks a momentous reversal of an embargo first initiated by former president Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960, with full break of diplomatic relations in January, 1961. Citing the previous embargo as “a rigid policy rooted in events that took place before most of us were born,” Obama spoke…

The answer to the mystery quiz is pleural effusions, specifically, bilateral subpulmonic effusions. The chest radiograph shows a number of findings: (1) the apparent diaphragm shadow is in fact fluid sandwiched between the undersurface of the lung and the actual diaphragm (Image 2a, arrow); (2) the density of this shadow is homogenously white (Image 2a, asterisk) and differs from a normal diaphragm which has a graded density (Image 2b, triangle) due to superimposed air that progressively decreases towards the…

This week, the Senate Intelligence Committee declassified a 500-page report that outlined and described uses of torture by the CIA to interrogate suspected terrorists after the attacks of 9/11 . While CIA Director John Brennan tried to defend his agency’s actions, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chaired the committee that released the report, described the CIA’s interrogation program “a stain on our values and our history.”

Amidst these new revelations, protests in response to the grand jury decisions in the deaths…

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